Comment on T. Stauch, A. Dreuw, “Stiff-stilbene photoswitch ruptures bonds not by pulling but by local heating”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 15848
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We explain why the key premise of the above-cited paper (“local heating”) is based on misunderstanding of how fast solutes thermalize, of how molecular strain affects reaction rates and of the role of force in the modern models of mechanochemical kinetics.
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pp. 27888-27891
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